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UNION SQ. PARK COMMUNITY COALITION, INC. v. NEW YORK CITY DEPT. OF PARKS & RECREATION

102734/12.

2013 NY Slip Op 50110(U)

UNION SQUARE PARK COMMUNITY COALITION, INC., ASSEMBLYMEMBER RICHARD N. GOTTFRIED, CAROL GREITZER, EDITH SHANKER, GEOFFREY CROFT, WILLIAM BOROCK AND MARGARET GONZALEZ, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, ADRIAN BENEPE, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CHEF DRIVEN MARKET, LLC AND URBAN SPACE HOLDINGS, INC., Defendants.

Supreme Court, New York County.

Decided January 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plaintiffs are represented by Albert K. Butzel , 249 West 34th Street, Ste. 400, NYC, NY 10001, 212-643-0375 and Reed W. Super and Alexandra I. Hankovszky , Super Law Group, 131 Varick Street, Ste 1001, New York, NY 10013, 212-242-2355.

Defendants are represented by Michael A. Cardozo , Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, 100 Church Street, NYC, NY 10007, Hilary Meltzer and Amy McCamphill , of counsel, 212-788-1585, 212-676-8517.

ARTHUR F. ENGORON, J.

The instant motion is granted and the instant cross-motion is denied.

Contrary to understandable belief, New York City's Union Square is not so-named for the Northern side in the Civil War or for the Labor Movement, but because it is situated at the junction of what is now Broadway and Fourth Avenue. Although it may not have the national and international renown of its uptown half-siblings Herald Square and Times Square, it has a jewel...

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